35 Inspirational George Washington Quotes On Success

George Washington was among the Founding Fathers of the United States and served as the nation’s first President, a pioneer and a strategist, the only leader consistently chosen by the Electoral College, serving two terms as president. As the first president, Washington realized that every one of his techniques, choices, and moves will make a point of reference for everything that will take after, so he constantly settled on his decisions precisely and mindfully. Washington declined to serve a third term and decidedto live his lastyears as a basic honorable agriculturist, setting an overwhelming example again. Washington was a man with a profound feeling of obligation, a military saint and a loyalist. May his quotes inspire you to be an individual of action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” George Washington

2. “If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.” George Washington

3. “Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.” George Washington

4. “The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.” George Washington

5. “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” George Washington

6. “Someday, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.” George Washington

7. “Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.” George Washington

8. “Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.” George Washington

9. “Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.” George Washington

10. “Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.” George Washington

11. “My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.” George Washington

12. “Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.” George Washington

13. “Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.” George Washington

14. “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington

15. “Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” George Washington

16. “To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.” George Washington

17. “I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman’s cares.” George Washington

18. “Let your Discourse with Men of Business be short and comprehensive.” George Washington

19. “The foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.” George Washington

20. “Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray but almost blind in the service of my country.” George Washington

21. “We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.” George Washington

22. “The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.” George Washington

23. “Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.” George Washington

24. “I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!” George Washington

25. “Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.” George Washington

26. “Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.” George Washington

27. “The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.” George Washington

28. “I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.” George Washington

29. “Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.” George Washington

30. “99% of failures come from people who make excuses.” George Washington

31. “It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.” George Washington

32. “Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.” George Washington

33. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” George Washington

34. “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” George Washington

35. “The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.“ George Washington

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